Are you being serious or joking? If you are being serious, then you are just spreading misinformation. The Bar Mitzvah ritual was invented long before there was any cause for synagogues to attract members. If you are claiming to be on the side of rationality, then stick to the facts.

I thought the whole point of Bar/Bat-mitzvahs was the party and presents! Do you have to attend the ceremony to gain admittance to the party? Don’t some Jews do the whole thing at home, like they do with a briss?

Even though you are a representative of AA, I don’t see anything amiss with attending without donning the trappings of submission. You probably made your wife happy, and exposed your daughter to the silliness of religious ritual. Many of the other attendees were probably thinking the same thoughts as you were: “Blah, blah, blah…let’s get to the party already!”

Lies? Who is doing the censoring if not you?

I have a hand in moderation, & yes, I’ve banned people from this site. But the claim that I’m ‘ruling w/an iron fist’ is…well, it’s fucking stupid. So the ‘draconian propensity’ part is a lie.
& I’m sick of re-explaining this nonsense every single time. What got his ass banned due to his behavior, not because of the topic, which anyone w/half a brain could see. He had this wild obsession w/Jewry, & thought he was going to rescue AA from itself by compulsively posting about it on EVERY.SINGLE.THREAD. He was asked to behave, he wouldn’t. He was told to stop, he got moderated. He went too far, he got his ass booted.
Too much is sometimes too much, regardless of topic.